opinion Which suffix do you think will be the next .COM and why ？

jim h · May 19, 2020

After decades of development,.Com domain name has been basically saturated, and there is no good investment opportunity in the existing market like before.So..

Which suffix do you think will be the next .com and why ？（Or close to its height）
Or
Do you think the domain name system will be replaced gradually ？By what?（Within ten years）

Welcome to leave your opinion.

pb · May 19, 2020

None of the currently available TLDs can replace .com, because they are either bad, or too expensive, or ccTLDs. The "replacement" needs to be stable, with no restrictions, cheap and totally generic. I've always thought .web might be the next big thing, but they would need to price it competitively ($5/y?) and refrain from the domainer-registry approach (no "registry premium" domains). Then and only then I think it will be a strong contender.

BaileyUK · May 19, 2020

pb said:
I've always thought .web might be the next big thing, but they would need to price it competitively ($5/y?) and refrain from the domainer-registry approach (no "registry premium" domains). Then and only then I think it will be a strong contender.

It's a shame because I agree .web would have been a preferential extension to .com had it been around at the beginning. The problem is that it doesn't denote anything different that .com doesn't already encompass today . I appreciate ,com was intended to denote Commercial at the beginning. But I can't see .web having a great standing in the future - that would almost be akin to reinventing the proverbial wheel

FolioTeam · May 19, 2020

BrandAptly.com · May 19, 2020

WhoaDomain.com said:
hmmm interesting question.

I've always been partial to the idea that someone should buy a cheap island somewhere in third world country.

Call it Victoria Royal or Rainbow or Raven or even Virtual Reality.

And then apply for .vr domain extension

plenty of companies using the "suffix" of VR to make .vr valuable.

Does it have to take the purchase of an entire island or the renaming of a country to apply for the .VR extension? What are the application prerequisites?

pb · May 19, 2020

BrandAptly.com said:
Does it have to take the purchase of an entire island or the renaming of a country to apply for the .VR extension? What are the application prerequisites?

double-character TLDs are reserved for countries and territories.

manpreet · May 19, 2020

jim h said:
After decades of development,.Com domain name has been basically saturated, and there is no good investment opportunity in the existing market like before.So..

Which suffix do you think will be the next .com and why ？（Or close to its height）
Or
Do you think the domain name system will be replaced gradually ？By what?（Within ten years）

Welcome to leave your opinion.

I am not commenting about the ccTLDs but .io seems to be pretty strong lately.

jim h · May 20, 2020

mAd MaX said:
.xyz

The number of. Xyw has really grown rapidly in recent years

jim h · May 20, 2020

frank-germany said:
I really love it when a "discussion" is started with a wrong preamble
stating something which is not true
and then start a manipulative discussion

you should think of a career as a politician instead of a domainer career

well,thank you,I just want to listen to everyone's ideas. English is not my native language. I may have some problems in expression.

jim h · May 20, 2020

BaileyUK said:
I think if you can get the wording right for its applicable application. And you really do need the mindset of a developer to run with this one. Then dot App still has a lot of legs. You are going to have to keep your eyes on the mobile world and strictly run with the domains/words where there are multiple competing applications. The mindset that will be required is to focus on the USERS outcome experience in the wording and of course very short.

No I don't own any .App extensions myself.
Buyer beware though, nothing is going to replace .com as the be-all in the foreseeable future

Your point is very representative.

jim h · May 20, 2020

pb said:
None of the currently available TLDs can replace .com, because they are either bad, or too expensive, or ccTLDs. The "replacement" needs to be stable, with no restrictions, cheap and totally generic. I've always thought .web might be the next big thing, but they would need to price it competitively ($5/y?) and refrain from the domainer-registry approach (no "registry premium" domains). Then and only then I think it will be a strong contender.

Yes. Com is irreplaceable at present

jim h · May 20, 2020

manpreet said:
I am not commenting about the ccTLDs but .io seems to be pretty strong lately.

yes,.io is really growing fast.

Jimmysun · May 20, 2020

If there is Louis Vuitton there must be eg. Prada, Gucci, Polo around(different design different styles and different clients), much same in the domain world.(different extensions different meaning and different areas)
From 1946-1964 there was baby boom that’s made today real estate flourish, in other hand, in past 20 years was internet boom that will make next 50 years domain industry flourish.

jmcc · May 20, 2020

jim h said:
After decades of development,.Com domain name has been basically saturated, and there is no good investment opportunity in the existing market like before.

It has not. The problem is that most people don't realise that about 43% of new .COM registrations do no renew at their first renewal. The blended renewal rate is around 72%. If the .COM was saturated then there would be no deletions.

At the moment, .COM is struggling in many countries where there is a strong ccTLD and the new registrations volume is shifting to the ccTLDs. The main reason that .COM is so strong is not the fact that it is the best global gTLD but rather that it is the de facto ccTLD for the USA. The .US ccTLD is the de jure (official) ccTLD for the USA. The .US ccTLD is now operated by Godaddy. The .US under Neustar mouldered in competition with the .COM in the US market. With a new registry operation, and the potential for marketing on Godaddy, things might change.

Regards...jmcc

jim h · May 20, 2020

Jimmysun said:
If there is Louis Vuitton there must be eg. Prada, Gucci, Polo around(different design different styles and different clients), much same in the domain world.(different extensions different meaning and different areas)
From 1946-1964 there was baby boom that’s made today real estate flourish, in other hand, in past 20 years was internet boom that will make next 50 years domain industry flourish.

Your metaphor is very vivid.

jmcc said:
It has not. The problem is that most people don't realise that about 43% of new .COM registrations do no renew at their first renewal. The blended renewal rate is around 72%. If the .COM was saturated then there would be no deletions.

At the moment, .COM is struggling in many countries where there is a strong ccTLD and the new registrations volume is shifting to the ccTLDs. The main reason that .COM is so strong is not the fact that it is the best global gTLD but rather that it is the de facto ccTLD for the USA. The .US ccTLD is the de jure (official) ccTLD for the USA. The .US ccTLD is now operated by Godaddy. The .US under Neustar mouldered in competition with the .COM in the US market. With a new registry operation, and the potential for marketing on Godaddy, things might change.

Regards...jmcc

You're right. Things may change gradually

jim h · May 20, 2020

I would like to share my view on. IO domain name. IO will attract more virtual currency investors with the progress of blockchain technology. Although this may be an artificial hype, the increase in transaction price is obvious.

jim h · May 20, 2020

DomainRex said:
Hard to replace the .com

Probably won’t ever happen, but I do agree that the .vr domain has a lot of potential especially with everything being in Virtual Reality in the future.

. com is indeed hard to replace, but I think with the emergence of new technologies, there will be new words generated and converted into domain names, such as new biotechnology, aerospace technology, blockchain technology, VR / AR and so on. These words will continue to grow.com.

jim h · May 21, 2020

Daniel Owens · May 21, 2020

Which suffix do you think will be the next .com and why ？（Or close to its height）
ecom is expected to replace .com the instant .ecom becomes available.
Do you think the domain name system will be replaced gradually ？By what?（Within ten years）In less than 10 years domains will be replaced by apps.

jim h · May 21, 2020

Daniel Owens said:
Which suffix do you think will be the next .com and why ？（Or close to its height）
ecom is expected to replace .com the instant .ecom becomes available.
Do you think the domain name system will be replaced gradually ？By what?（Within ten years）In less than 10 years domains will be replaced by apps.

Yes.
Apps, especially those ecotype apps that are similar to integrated websites, do pose a great threat to the way of searching websites by inputting characters in browsers.

CraigD · May 21, 2020

Daniel Owens said:
In less than 10 years domains will be replaced by apps

Daniel,
I'm not sure how an address can be replaced with an app.
It would still need users to be identified to a registration system or email or something tangible.
Could you explain please?

PS: I've never heard of .ecom.
Edit:
OK found it: https://icannwiki.org/.ecom

Still, I disagee.

jim h · May 21, 2020

CraigD said:
Daniel,
I'm not sure how an address can be replaced with an app.
It would still need users to be identified to a registration system or email or something tangible.
Could you explain please?

PS: I've never heard of .ecom.
Edit:
OK found it: https://icannwiki.org/.ecom

Still, I disagee.

.ecom is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The applicant is Ecommerce Inc.[1]

I heard it for the first time. Some kind of interesting

CraigD · May 21, 2020

jim h said:
.ecom is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The applicant is Ecommerce Inc.[1]

I heard it for the first time. Some kind of interesting

Yes first time I have heard of it also.
From the ICAAN link I posted it appears this extension was first proposed in 2012? and I can find nothing to confirm it went ahead, so I'm not sure how the OP considers that "ecom is expected to replace .com the instant .ecom becomes available" - that's a really really really big call in my opinion.
Nothing NEW replaces something tried and true, instantly.

jim h · May 21, 2020

CraigD said:
Yes first time I have heard of it also.
From the ICAAN link I posted it appears this extension was first proposed in 2012? and I can find nothing to confirm it went ahead, so I'm not sure how the OP considers that "ecom is expected to replace .com the instant .ecom becomes available" - that's a really really really big call in my opinion.
Nothing NEW replaces something tried and true, instantly.

Yes，you're right

CraigD · May 21, 2020

CraigD said:
Yes first time I have heard of it also.
From the ICAAN link I posted it appears this extension was first proposed in 2012? and I can find nothing to confirm it went ahead, so I'm not sure how the OP considers that "ecom is expected to replace .com the instant .ecom becomes available" - that's a really really really big call in my opinion.
Nothing NEW replaces something tried and true, instantly.

It appears that the application for .ecom (Application ID: 1-2016-12429) was last modified in 2013, and has since been withdrawn.
Interestingly, if you read through the legal documents, the proposal for .ecom was challenged at one point for being too similar to .shop, but that objection was dismissed.

King · May 23, 2020

I don't think that will ever happen as long as .com keeps simple decent pricing & no premium reg priced domains. .com is kind of instinct for consumers at this point.

By the way it looks like there is no claim on .vr as far as I know.

There was a petition on creating it lol: https://www.change.org/p/icann-boar...-off-second-level-vr-domain-names-for-charity

I wonder why it hasn't been claimed yet...

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